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Saros posted:Seems like overnight the US protests have escalated to people shooting at cops and ramming police lines with cars. Also Trump had riot police attack a bunch of protesters so he could go do a photo op at a church. Yikes. He also gassed the priest of the church in the process. Probably inadvertently, but I doubt Trump gave it much thought either way.
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Jose posted:completely unsurprising Labour 'taking action' on racism would deprive a bunch of Labour staffers of one of their favourite pastimes.
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Jun 2, 2020 10:36
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As someone who's been working throughout (well, not the very start, as I had some Annual Leave), one of the problems is that my job has changed quite significantly in that time. I was redeployed for a while, which was fine, but now I'm back "full time" in my job, but working from home for most of it The lack of structure is an issue for me, but more than that it's the fact that I'm physically and socially isolated from my colleagues, and being able to chat with my colleagues while I work is one of the things that makes my job likeable most of the time. There's nothing that's hitting me particularly hard, but the combined impact does leave me feeling rather listless.
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Jun 2, 2020 10:55
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goddamnedtwisto posted:and if I get it really badly wrong I can just play it badly and pretend I know what I'm doing.
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Jun 2, 2020 12:32
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Hamish MacBeth is the best police programme, as it documents one policeman's intense interest in maintaining the current criminal status quo that benefits him and his friends above and beyond the economic and structural needs of the community
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Jun 2, 2020 20:58
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Lid posted:Season 5 fails on many levels but the biggest actually is Gus wish fulfillment as every other season the characters are all complex, meanwhile in the news room there are three people who are literally perfect and three others who are evil with no redeeming features. There is literally no nuance it is a screed against "these assholes ruined my perfect world". Everything else beyond that from the poor plotting is also bad, but its that lack of being able to develop nuance at its base that makes the storylines fail. I think Simon's rebuttal to that is that Gus really has no clue what news the local people would be interested in Omar gets killed - which would be pretty loving big news in the area - and he shrugs it off as a 'drugs killing'. He's a middle-class man writing news that's irrelevant for large swathes of the city his paper reports on.
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Jun 3, 2020 16:02
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I'm sure that in a few months, we'll all be proud of the way BRITISH TAXPAYERS are going to FOREIGN COUNTRIES and spreading coronavirus wherever they put their grubby hands, feet, arses and/or faces.
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Jun 3, 2020 18:59
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Prisoners should be allowed to vote because it's their goddamn right to be able to vote. It's not like the people claiming "they don't have rights" would also say "they also shouldn't pay taxes".
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Jun 4, 2020 13:04
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Build the yacht, put Andrew on board, then kick him overboard the moment it gets to international waters. Then kick everyone else overboard as well. Maxwell the gently caress out of 'em.
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Jun 4, 2020 22:42
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Wikipedia suggests his oldest child has autism, so presumably he'd be okay with one of his children getting gently caress all in terms of welfare payments if he isn't able to work due to his autism. [edit] Even if he means something else, this is stupid, since most people (like me, apparently) don't read much beyond the headline
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Jun 5, 2020 09:36
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Tsietisin posted:This was a fascinating video to watch, thank you for linking it. Given that he was the Education Secretary responsible for pushing through the £9k/year fees, I'm not sure I'm interested in listening to what David Willetts has to say.
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Jun 5, 2020 10:02
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Cerv posted:it's a truism as old as the internet that people don't read past the headline. but I think recently on this forum it's been getting worse. It's a bad sign for Labour in general, though, that left-wing goons are looking at a headline like that, written about a Labour Shadow Cabinet member, and thinking "Yes, that sounds like something one of Keir's cronies would say"
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Jun 5, 2020 10:11
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Not for the first time, I've managed to injure my foot through the simple act of being asleep in bed. No idea what I've done, but it looks like I'll be hobbling around the house all day. Happy Sunday, people.
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Jun 7, 2020 09:20
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It's weird that some people still think that peaceful protest is even remotely worth while in a modern democracy. Like, just staying home and wanking is more productive than pretty much any mass peaceful protest of the last 30 years.
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Jun 8, 2020 14:21
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Starmer's such a wet fart. So utterly asinine that he can't bring himself to oppose anything. Except prosecuting paedos, of course.
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Jun 9, 2020 13:46
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Well, I never heard of urethral sounding before. The, uh, "noted" surgeon operated on his GI tract before actually confirming that there was something in there? I hope Mr Urethral Sounding didn't pay too much for his treatment
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Jun 9, 2020 16:33
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Jose posted:litearlly none of the people being racist in the report have suffered any kind of punishment If at least 21k people have liked that insipid piece of poo poo tweet, I think it's clear Labour is using Twitter bots as well
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Jun 9, 2020 18:49
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I grovel at the astounding abilties of this man: How thick are GQ readers that the editor thinks that's likely to impress them?
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Jun 10, 2020 16:36
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Regarde Aduck posted:Yes yes nothing matters. So why do any of us bother? His outlook may have been "why bother", but his method of expressing it was histrionic
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Jun 10, 2020 17:12
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crispix posted:I'll bet that Keri Stammers gets the peel off oranges all in one bit every time He's probably got a man-servant to do that for him
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Jun 10, 2020 17:38
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It is, occasionally, remarkable to me how much emotional energy people put into issues that are A) utterly unrelated to their day-to-day lives; and B) none of their loving business The rest of the time, I'm just like "People are loving assholes"
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Jun 11, 2020 13:03
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Funny how no-one in the media ever asks these fash cunts about all the homeless veterans their policies have left on the streets
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Jun 11, 2020 16:27
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The Sun has form for giving domestic abusers a platform. The Editor gave Rebekah Brooks a column to explain how she totally didn't do the things that her ex-partner was accusing her of. The Editor in question being Rebekah Brooks herself.
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Jun 12, 2020 13:17
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josh04 posted:But Rory Stewart is nowhere to be found?! Never fear; the Tories' candidate for London Mayor is black! And also a massive racist
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Jun 12, 2020 16:20
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I'm sorry to hear that, Isomermaid, that sounds loving awful. It does sort of reinforce my view that literally every position within Labour - paid, or voluntary - should have a term limit applied to it.
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Jun 16, 2020 02:29
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Yeah, the BBC News at 1 even managed to get a little bit of RLB in there talking about how essential it is.
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Jun 16, 2020 14:45
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Also, I just tried to eat a [cooked] frozen pizza, but the packaging had obviously been open and it was stale. The base was like bread-cheesecake, while the topping congealed into a lumpy, brittle, formless sheet that slid off the base whenever I took a bite. Having waited ~20 minutes while it was in the oven, I'm declaring this my food disaster of the week. And I've ordered Subway, 'cos I can't be arsed 'making' lunch again.
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Jun 16, 2020 14:48
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Wachter posted:It's like her editor caught the misattribution, but rather than fixing it, she added a completely redundant paragraph explaining that she's wrong in the previous paragraph, and that you, the reader, are a prig for noticing it? Like, just loving retire already. She'll only retire from 'journalism' once her book, detailing her passionate affair with "lovable rogue" Alexander de Pfeffel Boris Johnson, has been released, following a 4-part serialisation in the Daily Mail, so that fellow passion-voids can wank themselves to the point of 1% sexual gratification about her description of being mounted like an obese sea lion by Boris and hosed 'boyishly' with his locks of hair splattering her with sweat for every cocaine-induced flaccid thrust.
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Jun 17, 2020 01:10
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a pipe smoking dog posted:lol apparently the two British people who are valiantly trying to re-infect New Zealand met some friends and didn't tell anyone about it. 51.89% of the people voted for this They just didn't know they were doing it
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Jun 17, 2020 10:29
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Jose posted:honestly can't tell if the examples in this thread are parodies or not because the real thing have been so bad That's a long-ish thread when the answer is "because Labour is staffed by talentless lifer hacks who got their job courtesy of nepotism"
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Jun 18, 2020 13:00
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I seem to remember an Adam Curtis piece in the early 2010s where he said that of the ~£750bn the BofE spooged on quantitative easing after
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Jun 18, 2020 21:37
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Angepain posted:https://twitter.com/BBCNewsnight/status/1273702696076410882 It's the most pathetic form of 'journalism' in that it's whatever bullshit an "insider" can pull out of their arse, paired off with... a medical team who will 100% not discuss individual cases without explicit consent from the patients or carers. So the only families they'll talk to are the ones who are either convinced their child was 'failed' by the system, or those the producers can massage incriminating interviews from.
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Jun 19, 2020 00:53
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The only thing I'm wondering is how long into the piece it'll be before they mention how poor JK Rowling has received abuse at the hands of trans activists.
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Jun 19, 2020 08:32
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I've got mixed feelings about Malala Yousafzai graduating. On the one hand, she's gone through some appalling things and is genuinely inspirational for many people. On the other hand, she studied PPE, ffs
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Jun 19, 2020 13:10
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OwlFancier posted:Hopefully the visibility will force them to make it permanent. McNichol did so much harm to the party, he'll probably be made Tory peer
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Jun 21, 2020 12:45
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Two things you could do: Just to expand on this if you haven't already made a call: If you're concerned about the welfare of the child, but you don't think there's an immediate risk to the child, call Children's Social Care If you think there's an immediate risk to the child, call 999 If you're not sure, probably best to call 999 anyway
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Jun 21, 2020 14:45
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jaete posted:So tell me, fellow prisoners of this plague island, how excellent is the treament given to coronavirus patients as of right now? Good Yes Yes
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Jun 21, 2020 20:55
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Darth Walrus posted:https://twitter.com/miqdaad/status/1274818415849594881?s=21 I wonder if the families of the two people shot dead in Moss Side will feel like they've been cheated out of some quality public grieving. 3 people dead in Reading = 1 minute's silence plus a gently caress-off massive amount of press coverage. 2 people dead in Manchester = sidebar of "who cares" for 18 hours and then nothing.
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Jun 22, 2020 05:36
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So it turns out that when the Housing Secretary did Tory donor Richard Desmond a favour and approved planning permission, he saved him around £150m, rather than the £50m that was originally reported, and meant that he didn't have to use as much affordable housing. I mean, if I was a cabinet minister and was going to save someone £150m by being corrupt as gently caress, I'd probably ask for more than a £12k donation to my party. Which is why the police should be looking into this right now.
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OwlFancier posted:He may simply lack the commitment to expend his limited dexterity posting and is in fact doing other things during recovery. Which is unfathomable I know but some people are like that. I got the impression it was post-stroke aphasia, which would probably make typing and/or reading very difficult. Either way, it was sad, but understandable.
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